OPTIMISTIC CMMI Evaluation: Lowers Long-stay Nursing Home Residents' Avoidable Hospitalizations
An independent evaluation prepared for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) on the initial phase of OPTIMISTIC, a program developed and implemented by clinician-researchers from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and partners, found a 33% decrease in avoidable hospitalizations of long-stay nursing facility residents.
OPTIMISTIC, an acronym for Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical quality and Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care, is a John A. Hartford Foundation grantee, and is one of seven demonstration projects funded by CMMI's Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations among Nursing Facility Residents.
The evaluation also found that nearly one in five of all hospitalizations, both avoidable and unavoidable, was eliminated by OPTIMISTIC, and that Medicare expenditures were $1589 lower per nursing home resident per year.
To read the press release, click here.
To go to CMMI's Initiative page, click here.
To go to the OPTIMISTIC website, click here.